But while still maintaining that such analysis is useful, I increasingly wonder if assigning dollar figures to currently unpriced nature, just undermines efforts to get people to see that there is more to nature, there is more to the world than the economic or financial
value we
place on it?I've been going back and forth
about writing something
about this ever since my colleague Stephen Messenger tried to explain why we must not consider nature priceless, but never quite got around to it — partly because I realize it's swimming upstream a
bit and I wondered if I wasn't just overreacting or worrying to much
about an abstract eco-philosophical concept.